The Gun Line MkIII

The day broke on Wednesday, 30 April, 1975, just like it had every other day for a 10 year old boy living in the Kalayaan Housing Area aboard Subic Bay Naval Station, Republic of the Philippines.  Warm and green; comfortable in that we had been there for almost two years, and I had establish my [...]

25 April 1915… ANZAC Day… It is believed that the national identities of Australia and New Zealand awoke, and amidst the bullets, shells, and blood of Anzac Cove, Helles, and Suvla Bay during the Gallipoli Campaign. Years later, during another world war, Australia and New Zealand would sacrifice a vast majority of their countries’ young [...]

“Another one in the books!” I had the pleasure of attending the 2010 MilBlog Conference in Washington D.C.! Personally, the journey to and from the Conference was flawless and uneventful, and when I arrived in D.C., I was looking forward to the pre and post festivities as well as the event itself… There are plenty [...]

“The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it’s sunk, he brings it up. If it’s in the way, he moves it. If he’s lucky, he will die young, 200 feet beneath the waves, for that is the closest he’ll ever [...]